The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-10-29
News of the Week.


Elihu B. Washburne. ex- Minister to France.
died at his sons residence in Chicago, on
Saturday afternoon.
Snow fell at Staunton, Virginia, on Tuesday
morning, but melted as it fell. It showed at
Charlottesville all day.
The fire at Marinette, Wisconsin, on Thurs
day morning of last week, destroyed two
blocks, comprising 25 stores and number
OF dwellings.
The Red river is reported frozen over from
st. Vincent, Minnesota. to Pembina. Such II
thing has not happened so carly in the season
for thirty years.
The President of the United States on Tues
day issued a proclamation designating Thurs.
day, November oath, as a day of National
Thanksgiving and prayer.
At Utica, New York, on Saturday, three
saloon keepers, for selling liquor on Sunday,
were sentenced to break stone in the county
Jail for thirty days.
Counterfeit postal cards have been discov-
cred in Pittsburg, so skillfnlly executed that
their detection is very difficult. 1t is thought
they came from New York.
Joseph Duncan, under twenty years SEN
tence for homicide, was shot dead by the
sheriff at Hot Springs, Arkansas, on Sunday
noon while trying to escape from the jail.
There was intensely cold weather in the
Northwest on Monday. At Billings, Monta-
na, the mercury was l50 below zero. sno W
storm ragged on Sunday and Monday at Gay
lord, Michigan.
Assembly No. l63, Knights of Labor, of Mil
yankee, Wisconsin, composed of coopers,
have decided to leave the order. The pro-
hibition clause, upheld by the Minneapolis
Convention, caused the withdrawal.
Rev. Charles A. Berry, young English
minister, preached in Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn, Sunday morning. and made very
favorable impression. 1t is believed he will
be chosen as the successor of Henry Ward
Beecher.
Charles Tatman, President of the New Cas-
tie County National Bank, of Odessa, Della,
ware, died last Friday evening, aged 95 years
Pie was elected President when the bank was
organized, in 1854, and remained its active
head up to his death.
On Saturday evening, at Maxwell, Iowa
Perry Ackers entered the Office of Mayor }
| o. French and shot and killed him. He ther
shot 7. B. Schneider, but not fatally, and af
ter pursuing others, shot himself, dying in
stantly. No cause for the murder and suicide
is known.
| Masked hlghwaymen stopped stage coach
near Redding, California, ON Friday night, ant
when the stage horses became frightened ant
started TO run, one of the robbers fired, killing
n passenger named Henderson, prominen
citizen Of Adm, California. Armed parties
started in pursuit of the robbers.
An oven used for japanningin the works o
J. H. Sessions & Sons at Waterbury, Connec
ticut, exploded on Saturday morning, setting
the building on fire. When the fire was ex
tinguished the dead bodies of Willie Young
aged IA years, Burt Cleveland, aged 10, anC
! John Shane, aged 81, we're taken from the
ruins. Six or seven others were injured, two
severely.
! The President and Mrs. Cleveland arrived
in Washington shortly before seven o'clock OIL
Saturday morning. The president was heart
lily glad to get home, though as heartily glat
that he went away. During the three weeks
of his journeying, he had travelled $500 miles
passed through seventeen States, crossing
three of them twice, and had been seen b.
/ (variously estimated by different members o
the party at from 100000 TO 100000 o
American citizens.